Kuberski’s occasion for criticism lies in what he sees as an inadequate engagement with postmodernism. For him, any system that feels that “the world is a vast, essentially meaningless machine, variously ‘constructed’ by different ‘discourses’ throughout history, or an array of resources whose only purpose is exploitation by humans” (1). He calls this “the worldview constructed by scientific-capitalism” (1). For him, both a historical perspective (of man embedded in a historical fabric that can be uncovered) and a deconstructive (of man embedded in an alien culture that ignores him) are part of the persistence of Cartesianism in the Western imagination. Kuberski, instead, wishes to argue for a new perspective, equally drawn from science, that captures the interplay between order and disorder found in the quantum model of the atom.